Henry K. Burgwyn

Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. (3 October 1841-1 July 1863) was a Colonel of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts in 1841, the cousin of General George B. Anderson. Burgwyn grew up in his family's home state of North Carolina, and he graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1857 and from the Virginia Military Institute in 1861. Burgwyn became the colonel of the 26th North Carolina Infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army when the American Civil War broke out, siding with North Carolina against his birth state. He fought against Ambrose E. Burnside at New Bern in 1862, escaping capture, and he later fought at Malvern Hill and Goldsboro Bridge as a general within the Army of Northern Virginia. At Chambersburg Pike on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Burgwyn took up his regiment's colors when the flagbearer was killed, and he was shot in the abdomen while giving orders to his men. Burgwyn died of his wounds two hours later.